The Federation of Catholic Family Associations of Europe
FAFCE
have issued a statement relating
to today’s debate in the European Parliament on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Following a statement on the behalf of the European
Commission on “Non-discrimination in the framework of Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights (SRHR)”, a debate took place at the plenary session of the
European Parliament this morning.
For observers of the European Parliament it
surprising to see this item on the plenary agenda as a resolution on the issue
of SRHR was adopted only a month ago and set a clear limit, namely that SRHR is
solely the competence of the Member States and not an issue to be dealt with at
the EU level.
The statement of the European Commission was crystal clear
and reaffirmed the position adopted by the European Parliament, underlining
that the EU should not interfere in the area of SRHR but that it’s the Member
States’ responsibility to address this issue. [...]
The motive behind this debate was made very clear by several
groups of the European Parliament: it was intended to put pressure on the
Spanish Government that is currently preparing a change of the Spanish abortion
law that would introduce a restriction of the access to abortion.
